The End Of Vikings Explained

The final shield wall has been formed, the last longship launched. Heroes have risen, fallen, and converted to Christ. The best thing we can say about the final ten episodes of Michael Hirst's genre-defining historical epic Vikings is that it went out fighting, with a sword in its hand.

In some sense, "The Last Act" is a schizophrenic episode. It principally follows two groups led by Ragnar's surviving sons as they march toward diametrically opposed, but equally inevitable conclusions.

Ubbe's crew, who spent much of the half-season floating on the vast and uncharted Atlantic Ocean with neither food nor water, is now settled in the Golden Land of what's clearly North America, where they've discovered both a helpful Native American tribe and an old friend, Floki the boatbuilder. After much suffering at sea, it appears that Ubbe and his crew might finally get the chance to live as farmers in a bountiful land with new neighbors who know nothing of the Viking way, but when Naad kills We-jitu after breaking into his teepee in search of gold, the fragile peace between the two peoples is threatened.

On the other side of the sea, Ivar once again challenges Alfred of Wessex. After King Harald is killed in battle, Ivar assumes that the peace-loving Christian Saxons will have had enough of war. Under the flag of truce, he and Hvitserk offer Alfred a typical Viking bargain: An exchange of hostages and land carved out of Wessex for the Vikings to settle, which in turn would buy a temporary end to the hostilities. Steeled by his wife's advice, Alfred refuses the offer, determined to purge the Pagan horde from his land once and for all.

Though Ivar has the numbers, he sees the writing on the wall. He knows that he will die if he fights the Saxons again, and Hvitserk identifies that his brother's eyes have turned blue, an apparent sign that Ivar is about to hurt himself.

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